Congratulations! You don't say what you thought of them but I hope you had fun.

I don't think I would enjoy it because it sounds too much like real life :-/.

I read Forever War and OMG was that a brutal, depressing, slog. And that ending…yeesh.

I read the first chapter of the non-Adams book and it was dreadful. Skimmed through some of the middle section to see if it would get better but it clearly did not, so I dropped it.

Yeah, the first two books were my favorite, and the third was tolerable. But I think after that Adams was just doing it for money. Too bad the Dirk Gently series didn't take off more than it did, I would have rather read a bit more of that.

Me too. I buy nearly all my books at library book sales years or decades after they were published. And I have so many of them that I could never buy another book again as long as I live and still not have read through what I already own. :-| Yet occasionally I'll splurge on a new hardcover, just to bring it home and…

I'll agree with you on some of these other things but I actually do prefer Miracle Whip to mayonnaise.

I'm only about 1/3rd of the way through it, but this year I finally started Cryptonomicon. Thing has been sitting on my shelf for dang near 17 years and I'm only now getting around to it. So far I have to say that while it does have its structural problems; and the technology usage in the (at the time) present day…